Home Staging on a Budget

Thinking about home staging? How does a vacant room appeal to buyers on the MLS? You can see how drab and cold an empty room looks on a photo. Did you know that over 80% of buyers will see your home online first? Try looking online at all the photos of homes for sale, pretend you are shopping for a home.

Which homes would you spend time looking at.... the ones that look unappealing, cold and empty? Or ones that look inviting and create a homey feeling? Why do new home builders spend over $100,000 on home staging if it does not work. The concept is real and works, people buy for emotional reasons. Does you home create warmth and appeal the the buyers out there now?

Some people feel that they can stage themselves and some do. But most that I see, do not create the warmth and appeal that a professional stager can achieve. If you are a tight budget, there are tricks and techniques that stagers can do to keep the budget down to a minimum and still create appeal. Remember this, staging must be right for the price point of the house. This budget would be wrong for a $500,000 home in the Sacramento Ca area. See some examples for yourself. If you feel that you need some help staging your home, get some advice from a stager in your area that can give your home a new set of eyes.

This is a low end $200,000 1970's Sacramento Ca home that we staged on a small budget. We used a table vignette to give this dining area some warmth and appeal plus some demention to the bare room. We used the same colors throughout the home to create a theme in the decor. I recommended that the seller paint the 70's window spindles white and they did not choose to do so at that time.

The investment in staging will get your home sold faster and that means more money back in your pocket.

One Step Staging is a premier full service home staging companyin Roseville, serving Placer County, Rocklin, Lincoln, Granite Bay, Fair Oaks, Carmichael, Sacramento and surrounding areas. View our web site at One Step Staging for more examples of our work. Call Kathy Dyer Home Stager for more information.